[Careforsailor] Fwd: updates about care calender & listserve plus a few other important things when offering support

[Sydney Neuman]

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From: Sydney Neuman <srneuman at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 9:17 AM
Subject: Re: [Careforsailor] updates about care calender & listserve plus a
few other important things when offering support
To: s yeung <artsves at gmail.com>


Hey all!

Here's what's been going on with me:

I've gone to Sailor's for couple of hours once each week for the past two
weeks. I've done dishes, cleaned bathroom, swept a little, made food/done
food prep, and generally hung out and had a great time. I called and picked
up a few groceries on my way last time, and that seemed like a good thing I
would do again. I was initially kind of worried about the length of the
trip to Surrey (I live in East Van), but it's quick once you're on the
skytrain and easy to find. I generally get a little anxious when I'm
outside my geographical comfort zone, but I'm already feeling more
comfortable. If people are worried about 3-zone fare, also keep in mind
that after 6:30pm on weekdays and all day on the weekends it's just 1-zone
fare.

As for the questions:
1) I'm going to go with semi-frequently, but because of my health
issues/school/child-care work schedules I kind of need to play it by ear.
There will probably be times when I can do weekly, and times when I'm not
able to for a month of busy school times or something. I used the care
calendar once and thought it was a great idea, but Sailor mentioned (and I
saw) that no one else was, so I'm trying to be good about checking in by
phone to let them know what my capacity is and when. I'm going to start
using the online care calendar again, and hopefully others will too. Since
my schedule's all over the place, I think it's a good system.
2) I'm down for all three, although moving super heavy things or full-day
projects are tricky for me in terms of my disabilities.
3) To be honest, I don't, really. My mental capacity is also pretty limited
to the three areas of help listed in the email, and not so much with
organizing. Like I said, I'm going to start using the care calendar all the
time and keep looking at my weekly schedule for where there might be room
and setting aside time.

-Sydney




On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 10:35 PM, s yeung <artsves at gmail.com> wrote:

> hi everyone who is on this list!
>
> so i talked to sailor and the care calender and listserve is not working
> for them. this week there hasn't been anyone to offer to help them with
> food prep, cleaning dishes or any of the other things that is on their
> to-do list.
>
> from what i know the things that are important at the moment is :
>
> 1- food prep and making food to make sure that sailor eats
> 2 - disability form filling out  + tax related work
> 3 - painting their room and moving into their new room before sept 1st (in
> a week!)
>
> Another thing that is* very important *is to call sailor and check in
> with them. give them a call, say hi, talk about your day, or your dog. it's
> very important to call sailor because they are feeling very isolated. if
> you only have the capacity to say HI and to check in, please include in
> questionaire below!
>
> their number is 604 930 0580. it doesn't have an answering machine and
> often it might take sailor a while to pick up, so let it ring for a bit.
>
> so how can we make the listserve and calender work for those interested.
> there was a lot of work and emotional labour (by sailor and cassie!) put
> into this system to support sailor and it's not working. so how do we make
> it work? what do people need? are you confused about how things are
> working? if you are finding that you have too much on your plate or
> whatever, you can be taken off the list.
>
> so first off
>
> *Please answer questions below!*
>
> 1 - what is your availiability in helping out (frequently (weekly/daily),
> semi-frequently (bi-weekly) or rarely (monthly or once in a while)?
> 2 - what areas do you want to be a person to be a contact of? you can
> choose all three (food prep, taxes /disability , room/moving) or choose one
> or whatever
> 3 -  do you have ideas to help get the care calender and listserve started?
>
> If you can, please respond "reply all" so that everyone on this list can
> read it. I think it's important for us on this listserve to start
> connecting and communicating with each other if we want to set up a system
> that is sustainable to fulfill sailor's needs.
>
> so i was thinking that those of us who are interested in supporting sailor
> right away is that we could meet up and talk about things together, or at
> least make a conversation where we can talk to each other to know what is
> happening. like make some sort of collective or something like that.......
>
> sves
> if you wanna talk not on email, give me a call at 778 838 6348
>
>
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